-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)

-Butterflies (Superfamily Papilionoidea)

-Skippers (Family Hesperiidae)

-Spread-wing Skippers (Subfamily Pyrginae)

-Checkered-Skippers, White-Skippers, and Allies (Tribe Pyrgini)

-Genus Xenophanes

-Glassy-winged Skipper (Xenophanes tryxus)

The genus Xenophanes is instantly recognizable, with a pale brown ground colour heavily speckled with greyish; and large hyaline windows in the fore and hind wings. . The adults are normally encountered singly or in two's and three's. They bask on bushes and low herbage with wings fully outspread but rarely spend more than a few seconds in one place.